The new rubbish tax comes from a European directive for the reduction of urban waste across Europe, which Spanish municipalities had to implement before 10 April, under the premise that ‘the polluter pays’ and that more populated households systematically generate more rubbish.
The Spanish Federation of Large Families (FEFN) has already developed a campaign against the penalisation of households with more children in this new tax and is now gathering information to know in detail how the municipalities have dealt with this new tax, whether there has been a penalty or exemptions and deductions for large families. It will seek the support of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, to ask the local councils to apply the rebates provided for in the law.
The FEFN insists that, when thinking about the waste generated in a household, factors such as the number of people registered in the household or the size of the house cannot be taken into account, as this clearly penalises large families. ‘These families are larger and therefore need larger dwellings, but this does not mean that they generate more waste and pollute more’.
Households that recycle
According to the organisation, large families are an example of efficient consumption, as they make extraordinary use of all resources, reuse and recycle all kinds of objects and practice wasteful cooking. It cannot be taken for granted that because there are more of them they pollute more, we must look at per capita consumption and take into account the recycling habits of these households and not forget that they are contributing a good to society as a whole and cannot be penalised for this, on the contrary, they must have the support of the administration and not always be subject to the economic pressure of taxes”, the Federation explains.
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